Convey vs Vent - What's the difference?
convey | vent |
To transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.
* Shakespeare
To communicate; to make known; to portray.
* John Locke
(legal) To transfer legal rights (to).
* Spenser
(obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
A small aperture.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
The opening of a volcano from which lava flows.
A verbalized frustration.
The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates.
A slit in the seam of a garment.
The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
To allow gases to escape.
To allow to escape through a vent.
(intransitive) To express a strong emotion.
* 2013 June 18, , "
To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
sale; opportunity to sell; market
* Sir W. Temple
As a verb convey
is to transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.As a numeral vent is
.convey
English
Verb
(en verb)- Convey me to my bed, then to my grave.
- Air conveys''' sound; words '''convey ideas.
- to convey''' an impression; to '''convey information
- Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but convey not thereby their thoughts.
- He conveyed ownership of the company to his daughter.
- The Earl of Desmond secretly conveyed all his lands to feoffees in trust.
- I will convey the business as I shall find means.
Synonyms
* (to convey a message) send, relayDerived terms
* conveyable * conveyance * conveyee * conveyer * conveyorvent
English
Etymology 1
Partly from (etyl) vent, from (etyl) ventus and party from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- the vent''' of a cask; the '''vent of a mould
- Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents .
- Long 'twas doubtful, both so closely pent, / Which first should issue from the narrow vent .
- without the vent of words
- Thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel.
Derived terms
* ridge ventVerb
(en verb)- The stove vents to the outside.
- Exhaust is vented to the outside.
- He vents his anger violently.
- Can we talk? I need to vent .
Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
- But the demonstrators remained defiant, pouring into the streets by the thousands and venting their anger over political corruption, the high cost of living and huge public spending for the World Cup and the Olympics.
- (Spenser)
Etymology 2
Derived terms
* vent puppetEtymology 3
(etyl) vente, from (etyl) (lena) .Noun
- (Shelton)
- There is no vent for any commodity but of wool.